A. The term "sanitation workers" shall include all persons employed or engaged on a full-time basis by a governmental subdivision of the state of Louisiana, including any parish, municipality, or garbage district which maintains a full-time regularly paid sanitation department, for collecting or disposing of garbage and other waste matter.

B. "College or university" means any institution of post secondary education situated in this state, operated by an agency, board or other body created by the constitution or laws of this state, operated in whole or in part with funds appropriated for that purpose by the legislature and authorized to confer degrees in the arts and sciences.

C. "Room and board charges" means the fee or charge for lodging, quarters or food furnished by a college or university on its campus, and for which a regular and periodic charge is made to all students availing themselves of such services.

D. "Books" means textbooks, reference books, manuals, or other aids to instruction which are required to be purchased by a student in a given course of study.

E. "Semester" means a regularly fixed period of instruction for which credit is given whether a semester, quarter, trimester or otherwise.

F. "Child" means the offspring of a sanitation worker or his spouse living in the same household with and dependent upon the sanitation worker for support, and the offspring of a sanitation worker dependent upon him for support, whether or not living in the same household.